Recent content by Horselo285

Hi! Thanks for the reply! I am doing daily water changes- typically 10 or 20% depending on ammonia levels. It's been over a month since I bought the test kit and I'm seeing frequent high (not super high- I believe 25 or 50. When I first bought the test kit, the water was testing at the top...

Thanks for the reply. I have a couple of emails in to people advertising on cl, looking into 20 and 30 gallon tanks. In the meantime, is there anything I can do to get cycling to progress? It seems as if I'm forever stuck in the ammonia stage. :(

Thanks for the reply! My tap water ph is around 7.4 but it creeps up around 8 in the tank. The lady at the petstore told me to keep the ph around 7 for a community tank, but now I'm thinking that was just a way to sell me more stuff? I was just reading that it's more important to keep a...

Thanks so much for the reply! The ammonia only comes down with water changes. I have never seen any sign of nitrites or nitrates which I find so confusing. The tank will be two months old in a couple of weeks. I would have thought (from what I've read) that nitrites would have presented by...

Hi guys, I have a 10 gallon fish tank that I purchased and set up the beginning of June. I originally had one goldfish and a snail in it. The goldfish died but the snail is fine. The tank now has three male guppies, 3 tiny little fish- I forget the name but I believe it was a type of tetra...